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Make fun   /meɪk fən/   Listen
Make fun

verb
1.
Subject to laughter or ridicule.  Synonyms: blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, poke fun, rib, ridicule, roast.  "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher" , "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"






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"Make fun" Quotes from Famous Books



... scarlet. Then she broke into a little nervous laugh. "Oh, Mr. Lancelot, don't make fun of me." ...
— The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes • Israel Zangwill

... youth generally has an ideal, partly, perhaps chiefly, from mere intellectual high spirits and sense of the incongruous; occasionally the motive is jealousy or spite. Murray's sense of fun was keen, his ideal was lofty; of envy, of an injured sense of being neglected, he does not show one trace. To make fun of their masters and pastors, tutors, professors, is the general and not necessarily unkind tendency of pupils. Murray rarely mentions any of the professors in St. Andrews except in terms of praise, which is often enthusiastic. Now, as he was by no means a prize student, or pattern ...
— Robert F. Murray - his poems with a memoir by Andrew Lang • Robert F. Murray

... or the less for Emilia's announcement that she had a letter from Mr. Ferdinand Brown, eldest son of Sir Ferdinand's partner, offering her marriage, and that she had accepted him? He was, of course, a rich man, but oh! how Emily, Annie, and Gerald had been wont to make fun of ...
— The Long Vacation • Charlotte M. Yonge

... young man went away; but was it fair, after this notable victory, that they should all begin to make fun of her fierce and majestic bearing, and that the very person for whose sake she had confronted the enemy should begin to make ridiculous rhymes ...
— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various

... a shame to make fun of my horse," answered the Signora, smiling. "But really I am not afraid of him. I have a little headache from the ...
— Whosoever Shall Offend • F. Marion Crawford


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